Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.